Whenever “Last Week Tonight” takes a week off, we feel the loss – especially when John Oliver tries to make up for his absence with web exclusives like this one about April Fools’ Day. But, as it turns out, Oliver wasn’t on vacation last week – he was actually in Moscow tracking down Edward Snowden and conducting a comprehensive interview, which he then surprised viewers with during the second half of his main story segment on government surveillance.Around 13:40 of the half-hour-long segment, Oliver made his big reveal: There was no new show last week because he flew to Russia in order to interview Snowden. And there’s footage of him strolling around Red Square looking petrified upon coming across some Russian soldiers to prove it.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/04/06/watch-john-olivers-surprise-interview-with-edward-snowden-on-last-week-tonight/Also see:John Oliver presses Edward Snowden on whether he read all leaked NSA material
Edward Snowden avoided saying whether he had read every NSA document he handed over to journalists in an interview with comedian John Oliver on Sunday, as the HBO host posed uncomfortable questions to the NSA whistleblower in Moscow.When Oliver asked: “How many of those documents have you actually read?” Snowden responded: “I’ve evaluated all the documents that are in the archive.”
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/06/edward-snowden-john-oliver-last-week-tonight-nsa-leaked-documents